Steve Matthew Reeves

Cobb County Police Department — Marietta, GA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 24, 1999

Age 35

Tour of Duty 14 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 5

Incident

Sergeant Steve Reeves and Police Officer Stephen Gilner were shot and killed during a SWAT raid at a home near the intersection of William Paul Drive and Randy Court.

The two officers were on a SWAT Team entering a house during a standoff with a man who had shot and wounded another officer earlier in the day. The subject opened fire on the team with a shotgun as they made entry into the home. Sergeant Reeves, the fourth officer on the entry team, was struck by the blast.

Officer Gilner, the fifth officer on the team, entered the residence to pull Sergeant Reeves out of harm's way. He then re-entered the residence, at which point he was also shot. Both officers were transported to a local hospital, where Sergeant Reeves died shortly after midnight.

A third officer who entered the house was also shot and wounded.

The Cobb County Sheriff's Office's SWAT Team took over the mission early the next day. The subject was shot and killed as he attempted to escape the residence the next morning. The incident began when the subject assaulted one of his neighbors completely unprovoked. As the responding officer approached the man, he was shot in both arms, both legs and the back with a .40-caliber handgun and a 12-gauge shotgun.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Sergeant Reeves gave the Cobb County Police Department 14 years.
Thank you for your service to the Marietta community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Cobb County Police Department

Type Other

Location Marietta, Cobb County, GA

Platform Identity ccpd.cobb.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 24, 1999

Tour of Duty 14 yrs

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Military Service

Steve Matthew Reeves served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Steve Matthew Reeves is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In GA, 548 of 904 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.6% of this state's fallen. That is 60.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Cobb County Police Department, 6 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Cobb County Police Department

of 6 officers

100% Felonious

GA — Statewide

548

of 904 officers

60.6% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious